and they ¹  made the Israelites serve rigorously. ² 

God saw ¹  the Israelites, and God understood…. ² 

All you Israelites, ¹  make a decision here!” ² 

So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify ¹  them.

So Moses instructed ¹  the Israelites to observe ²  the Passover.

¹ The Israelites traveled on and camped in Oboth.

So the Israelites ¹  lived in the land of the Amorites.

These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730. ¹ 

The Israelites traveled from Rameses and camped in Succoth.

This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites. ¹ 

So the Israelites marched toward ¹  the Benjaminites the next day.

I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.” ¹ 

But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he chased after the Israelites. Now the Israelites were going out defiantly. ¹ 

When ¹  Pharaoh got closer, ²  the Israelites looked up, ³  and there were the Egyptians marching after them, ⁴  and they were terrified. ⁵  The Israelites cried out to the Lord, ⁶ 

“Look, ¹  I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of ²  every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken ¹  to Moses, so the Israelites did.

In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred ¹  from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

They ruthlessly oppressed ¹  the Israelites that eighteenth year ²  – that is, all the Israelites living east of the Jordan in Amorite country in Gilead.

The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said, “Explain how this wicked thing happened!”